Williams has received 50 Academy Award nominations. In addition to his film music, Williams has written many concert pieces including two symphonies, a bassoon concerto, a cello concerto, concertos for flute and violin, a trumpet concerto, and concertos for clarinet and tuba. Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than seventy-five films. and the haunting Schindler's List soundtrack. In 1978, an Oscar for Star Wars followed in a competition that included his score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. His first Oscar was for his adaption of the music for the screen version of Fiddler on the Roof. He has composed nearly all of the music heard in the Star Wars. It was the beginning of one of the greatest film composer/director collaborations ever. John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In 1974 Steven Spielberg came to John Williams after being moved by his score to The Reivers to score Sugarland Express. He went on to write music for many television programmes in the 1960s, winning two Emmys for his work.īeginning with his first screen credit, for Because They're Young, Williams' career as a composer of film scores gathered steady momentum. Williams moved back to Los Angeles and began his career in film studios working with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman. He also worked as a jazz pianist in both clubs and on recordings. He attended UCLA and studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.Īfter service in the Air Force, Williams returned to New York to attend Juilliard where he studied piano with Rosina Lhevinne. He was born in New York but moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was 16. John Williams (1932-present) is the most prolific and widely honoured living composer of film music and the most Oscar-nominated man alive.
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